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UK
/kwˈɪkənɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈkwɪkənɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɪkənɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus
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the process of showing signs of life
the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain - the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
How To Use quickening In A Sentence
- The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness.
- Historically, so far as I can understand, periods of spiritual quickening and revival have gone in hand with God's people coming together to pray.
- To see it, quickening, life. The Broken God
- It is the quickening of a city 's pulse. Times, Sunday Times
- From the fingers in which he'd claimed he could already feel the Art quickening beads of power oozed like ectoplasm, bursting in the air. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
- In the period down to the early 1300s, he argued, it was population growth which explained the slow but steady economic expansion - the growth of towns, the process of assarting, and the quickening of activity generally.
- God's power and grace are magnified in quickening what to the eye of flesh seems dead and hopeless (Ro 4: 17, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- She scrambled away, her heartbeat suddenly quickening in fear.
- Pity is a level for quickening love.
- Once we're into the second hour, Pollack ratchets up the pace a few notches and we notice a quickening of the pulse.